4. Constitution of Regular Air Force Reserve.—The Central Government may raise and maintain
in the manner hereafter in this Chapter provided an Air Force Reserve to be designated the Regular Air
Force Reserve which shall consist solely of persons transferred or appointed to it under section 5.
5. Recruitment to the Regular Air Force Reserve.—(1) The competent authority may, by general
or special order, transfer to the Regular Air Force Reserve—
(a) any officer or airman of the Air Force who under the terms and conditions of his service is
liable to serve in any Air Force Reserve if and when constituted;
1. This Act has been extended to and brought into force in Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Reg. 6 of 1963, s. 2 and the First Schedule
(w.e.f. 1-7-1965); and comes into force in Pondicherry vide Reg. 7 of 1963, s. 3 and the First Schedule (w.e.f. 1-10-1963); and
the State of Sikkim vide Notification No. S.R.O. 25(E), dated 20-4-1976 (w.e.f. 1-5-1976).
2. Chapters II and III and provisions of Chapters V and VI except so far as they relate to the Auxiliary Air Force came into force
on the 15th August, 1955, vide S.R.O. 332, dated the 20th August, 1955, Gazette of India, Part II, sec. 4. Chapter IV and
provisions of Chapters V and VI relating to the Auxiliary Air Force came into force on the 15th October, 1955, vide S.R.O. 395,
dated the 15th October, 1955, Gazette of India, Part II, sec. 4.
3. The Deputy Chief of Air Staff, vide S.R.O. 321, dated the 20th August, 1955, Gazette of India, Part II, sec. 4.
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(b) any officer or airman of the Air Force whose commission or engagement in the Air Force has
been terminated before the commencement of this Act and who under the terms of his commission or
engagement was liable to serve in any Air Force Reserve if and when constituted;
(c) any officer or airman who has served in the Air Force and has retired therefrom; and any
officer or airman so transferred shall be deemed to be a member of the said Reserve.
(2) The competent authority may, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be
prescribed, by special order, appoint to the Regular Air Force Reserve any member of the Air Defence
Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force raised and maintained under this Act, and where any such member is
so appointed, he shall cease to be a member of the Air Defence Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force, as the
case may be, and shall as from the date of such appointment be deemed to be a member of the Regular
Air Force Reserve.
(3) The competent authority may, for reasons which in its opinion are sufficient, cancel any order
made under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) and on the cancellation of such order the person in respect
of whom the order had been made shall cease to be a member of the Regular Air Force Reserve.
6. Classes of persons in the Regular Air Force Reserve.—Members of the Regular Air Force
Reserve shall be divided into the following classes, namely:—
(a) general duties officers;
(b) ground duties officers, and
(c) airmen, and every officer shall be entitled on transfer or appointment to the Reserve to hold
the same rank as that which he last held in the Air Force, or the Air Defence Reserve or the Auxiliary
Air Force, as the case may be, before such transfer or appointment.
7. Period of service.—(1) Every member of the Regular Air Force Reserve shall be liable to serve in
the Reserve—
(a) if he is transferred to the Reserve under sub-section (1) of section 5, for the period of his
Reserve liability; and
(b) if he is appointed to the Reserve under sub-section (2) of section 5, for the remainder of the
period for which he was liable to serve in the Air Defence Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force, as the
case may be:
Provided that the competent authority may require any such member to serve in the Reserve for such
further period or periods not exceeding in the aggregate five years as it may think fit.
Explanation I.—For the purposes of this sub-section, “period of Reserve liability” in relation to any
member of the Regular Air Force Reserve means the period for which under the terms and conditions of
his service in the Air Force he was liable to serve in any Air Force Reserve if and when constituted.
Explanation II.—In computing the period of Reserve liability in relation to any member of the
Regular Air Force Reserve whose commission or engagement in the Air Force was terminated before the
commencement of this Act, the period which has elapsed between such termination and the date of such
commencement shall be included.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), no person shall be liable to serve in the
Reserve after attaining the prescribed age.
8. Termination of service in the Reserve.—Every member of the Regular Air Force Reserve shall,
on completion of the period of his service therein, cease to be a member of the Reserve.